Friday, May 2, 2025

Why the two party system works best when treated like the temperature of your shower

 Most people do not turn their shower onto the hottest or coldest possible setting. Some do and they are quite happy. Others may like a hot or cold shower, but they moderate the temperature some. The allow for factors such as how they feel, what the outside temperature may be, if they need to conserve hot water for others.

In our current body politic the two parties only pander to the people who only want the hottest or coldest temperature. The majority of the country doesn’t want these extremes.

It is like the Federal Reserve Bank, sometimes to cool off inflation they raise interest rates. Other times to promote growth they lower rates. They have to adjust the knob of how much water is coming out of the shower to affect the price of goods.

Our system works better when the two parties realize a litany of items effect what is best for the country. One party may need to put more pressure on their legislative agenda because that is what the people need at the moment. Over time though things change so should the turn of the knob to the hotter or colder temperature.

Time, outside influences, internal and external needs affect what needs to be done. This play is why when done right a two party system can be effective. A more conservative party can push for budget restraint, value orientation, or a pro business model if growth is needed. A more liberal party can push the boundaries when the economy is doing well, when people are flush with expansiveness and charity, taking education to the next level. Yet in either case you cannot do both simultaneously because the resources won’t allow it. The times may not allow it.

So the people by choosing which party they want in power for two, four, six or eight years are turning the knob to make the water hotter or colder. This way all the people can take a comfortable shower over time.

If you let the parties become so extreme that they only want the hottest or coldest temperature they leave the vast majority of us out of the shower which hurts all the people. No one group has all the answers, so no one group should have control of the shower knobs.

The two party system fails us when the extremes are in control. Right now the extremes on both sides are in control and you can tell this by the vitriol, denigration, hate aimed at each other. Neither is thinking about the country only what they believe is right. Now they may say all the right words to convince their base they are in the right, but in reality year over year, primary after primary, certain party elites control the system, turning the knob hard in their direction and making the rest of us uncomfortable to be in the shower. This has been going on for so long, no one remembers what a moderate temperature feels like and now the right has turned on the let’s say cold water so hard they are freezing the vast majority of the country out. Add in Trump and his crew are just screwing us royally things are ice cold to this country. We didn’t get here because one party turned the knob all the way, both have, we are here just because one party turned the knob harder and working hard to make sure it cannot be turned back.

We need new parties to fight through the impasse that was created in the past that left us with a completely corrupt regime. And these two new parties will need to fight hard to get control of the temperature again, but definitely worth the fight once our country starts seeing a moderate well oiled knob directing the flow of temperature again to the people of this country. And yes at times it will need to be somewhat warmer or cooler to address the circumstances of the times.

Still no cheers, the times are a killin’ us

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